Community Partnerships

Ending family violence requires a whole of community approach. safe steps is proud to work collaboratively with any community organisation or governing body that shares our goal of eradicating family violence.

Community sector

Municipal Association of Victoria Local Government Prevention of Violence Against Women Network

Victorian Council of Social Services Peaks and Statewide Networks

Seniors Rights Victoria Elder Abuse Roundtable

Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence Project Advisory Group

VCOSS Peak & Statewide Network Forum

Statewide Refuge & Outreach Network

Gendered Violence and Abuse Research Alliance (GeVARA)

Ending Violence Against Women Media Action Group

safe steps is the auspicing member of SafeNET, a network of state-wide domestic and family violence crisis phone services across Australia. Through sharing critical information, and identifying emerging concerns and opportunities, SafeNET aims to enhance specialist responses and drive reforms to strengthen service systems available to women and children.

safe steps is the convening member of the Council of Women’s Services Victoria, a collaborative group of representatives from agencies operating with a gender lens to redress the impacts of gender inequality. Council of Women’s Services Victoria was formed to ensure that the safety and wellbeing of women, and the wisdom of practitioners who support them, remains at the centre of social reform.

Conferences

safe steps is committed to sharing our unique frontline-informed insights and data with both the family violence services sector and the wider community through conferences and presentations.

If you would like someone from safe steps to present at an upcoming conference or event, please email admin@safesteps.org.au or call (03) 9928 9600.

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safe steps respectfully acknowledges and celebrates the Traditional Owners of the lands throughout Victoria and pays its respects to their Elders, children and young people of past, current and future generations.

safe steps is committed to assisting all women and children in the community experiencing family violence. We are an organisation that values inclusivity, diversity and intersectionality.

We are committed to helping women (including transgender women and transfeminine-identifying individuals) and children of all ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, religions, ages and physical abilities. Click here to read our full Inclusivity Statement.